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No I'm asking if I can simply walk into a store and purchase a 14.5" or 7.5" barrel in the USA and walk out with it as I can in Canada.(if they were in stock).
Finding anything Noveske in Canada right now is like looking for hens teeth.

By Federal law, the upper is not the controlled part. However, if you own both a rifle lower and a short-barreled upper, you would be in "constructive possession" of a short-barreled rifle.

The actual legalities of a Canadian citizen buying it, I have no idea.

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The problem, as you so eloquently put it, is choice.
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He is no fool who gives what he can not keep to gain what he can not lose.
-Jim Eliott, paraphrasing Philip Henry.

Nonimmigrant aliens lawfully admitted to the United States without a visa, pursuant either to the Visa Waiver Program or other exemptions from visa requirements, will not be prohibited from shipping, transporting, receiving, or possessing firearms or ammunition, and the regulations will also no longer proscribe the sale or other disposition of firearms or ammunition to such nonimmigrant aliens.

It is not a firearm in the USA. it is an assembly of firearms parts. Anyone can buy it, even a convicted felon who happens to be under 18 and has been ajudicated a mental defective *and* is holding a passport from Afghanistan ......

Parts are Parts.

If it then legally is attachable to your AR up in Canada, great for you! We here in the wild west would need to fill out a form, send in $200, and wait eons to be able to do that. In the interim we better not be caught in posession of both the upper and a lower, which is the "firearm" part.

It's not that we don't need to register it or wait eons for it up here because of barrel length.
We have to register it, wait eons, and have a permit to transport it, to a range just to shoot it because it's an AR regardless of barrel length.

Your system looks at the lower and then could care less about the upper. Here we get lowers without fanfare and then need to license the installation of the short upper. But the actual parts are available for the price of buying them, it's the buyers responsiblity to not have "one from column A and one from column B" in the same place at the same time until the papers are filled out. You can buy all of the parts you like here without difficulty (other than finding them in the middle of the great gun-buying opanic of 2013".

It's not that complicated.
Choose a factory that is on the DDTC list. Noveske is compliant.
Apply for import permit from Canada. I can usually fax it in and receive it the same day.
Fill out Department Of State form DSP-83 and wait 30-60 days for approval.
Department of Commerce for shotgun parts.

As I understand U.S. export regulations, a barrel is a restricted part and requires an export license, and Canada requires an import license.

I would assume that while buying a restricted part in the U.S. would probably not be a problem, shipping or taking it into Canada without those licenses would be illegal.

If you have a copy of the Gun Parts Corp. catalog, they have a list of restricted parts and an explanation of their export policy under Ordering Instructions. They also have a web site address for further infomation:

As I understand U.S. export regulations, a barrel is a reestricted part and requires an export license, and Canada requires an import license.

I would assume that while buying a restricted part in the U.S. would probably not be a problem, shipping or taking it into Canada without those licenses would be illegal.

If you have a copy of the Gun Parts Corp. catalog, they have a list of restricted parts and an explanation of their export policy under Ordering Instructions. The give a web site address for further infomation:

Here in the US you can buy the short upper (over the internet) and attach it to a virgin lower, calling it a "pistol". If you want to slide the stock onto the buffer tube, you have to wait 6 months and pay 200.00 Really dumb.

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